In the first article the guy says the plane was coming in hot! Possible, also possible that with the weird angle of approach the CRJ makes, it may have appeared they were diving for the runway, when in fact all may have been normal. Just my 2 cents since the CRJ looks awkward to some when landing.

Quoting Centrair (Reply 6):So the landing gear was down and the plane just went off the runway and into mud.

Yes, it rolled right off the end of the runway.

I've flown myself into CWA and can say that it is a nice airport if you have to have an overrun as there is nothing but fields that surround the airport.

Quoting AS739X (Reply 3):Possible, also possible that with the weird angle of approach the CRJ makes, it may have appeared they were diving for the runway, when in fact all may have been normal.

With the nose down attitude and rounding out into a flare can cause the airplane to float if there is excess speed when the airplane crosses the numbers. I see CRJ-200s float all the time and this could have played into the overrun. A wet runway and touching down farther down the runway than you wanted to is never good.

Skyexramper: I understand, I fly planes myself and understand floating. All I was saying is the to the untrained eye, a CRJ of all planes always looks like its diving for the runway. I'm not saying it wasn't fast, I just hate when some Joe off the street see's something and some how knows what happened.

I saw several pics of this at work. Its stuck pretty deep in the mud. And it didn't over shoot by a few feet, it is at least a good 500 feet past the end of the runway. The airport should feel lucky that 8-26 wasn't blocked off.

All in all, not a good week for the regionals. You had this CRJ off the runway in CWA, the Republic 170 nose gear collapse in IAD, and the Air Wisconsin CRJ APU fire in PHL last week that shut that airport down for an hour.

You wonder when the public is going to stop flying anyone but mainline. Props used to be a scapegoat. Not anymore with the advent of regional jets, but I think the public still views them as regionals, and might want the added comfort of a mainline jet.

Quoting Apodino (Reply 9):You wonder when the public is going to stop flying anyone but mainline. Props used to be a scapegoat. Not anymore with the advent of regional jets, but I think the public still views them as regionals, and might want the added comfort of a mainline jet.

Granted the regional jet is smaller, it has the feel of a mainline. How many airlines are going to regional jets for mainline flying? B6 would be a good example of it. Also Independence, as they had an excellent record while flying. The last few incidents were the fault of mechanical. This incident is not known yet. Who knows, the brakes could have been an issue.

I will fly a regional jet anyday.

BTW- I watched the video, and the reaction of the passengers flying out was funny. Big news day for CWS. Imagine if it was a serious problem. LOL!

Glad everyone was okay. Rainstorm? Gosh, it could have been a few things that occured. Guess the pilots have the best answers for that.